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Topic: Cow Lakshmi's Liberation (Read 1220 times)

I think in the year 2008, Cow Lakshmi's 60th anniversary ofliberation was celebrated in Asramam. I was present in theAsramam at that time.

Many devotees even during Bhagavan's time asked Bhagavanwhether Liberation of Cow Lakshmi was a statement of truthor by way of euology. Bhagavan confirmed that Cow Lakshmihad attained liberation and He has written a Tamil poem onthat day of liberation.

So also was the liberation of deer, VaLLi and a crow.

From the point of view of scriptures too, liberation of livingbeings other than humans are true.

There was one Umapati Sivam, a great Saiva Jnani. One PethanSamban was serving him by bringing fire wood and milk and otherthings. When asked what he wanted, Pethan Samban said that hewanted only liberation! Umapati conferred liberation to him bygiving diksha immediately. The opponents of Umapati Sivam,(he was originally the temple priest of Chidambaram Temple)who were dikshitars in the Temple went and complained to theKing that Umapati Sivam had killed Pethan Samban. The Kingcame and Umapati Sivam said that he had been conferred liberation.The king angrily asked: Can you give liberation to anyone, anyliving being? The saint said Yes. Then the king showed a thornbush near the Temple. The thorn bush has been receiving Nataraja'sabulations water every day, since the water was flowing towardsthe bush. Umapati Sivam conferred liberation to the thorn bush.The bush caught fire and as a flame it went skywards!

The King could believe his eyes. He still doubted. Then UmapatiSivam said: See it yourself tomorrow in the Temple precincts!Next morning, when the doors of Chitrambalam, Hall of Consciousness was opened, all including the king saw the thornbush and Pethan Samban on both sides of Nataraja!

There is also a story in Sri Arunachala Puranam, that when Mother Uma came to Arunachala, for getting concorporate body,she climbed the mountains, in a hurry, when Siva appeared in Ner Annamalai, she accidentally trampled on a cactus bush and thebush caught fire and went upwards to the sky as flame.